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Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Mon May 11, 2015 4:26 pm

Amen. Its pretty crazy seeing how much a gui get in the way of getting to know a system. Now install that daw! http://sourceforge.net/projects/wineasio/

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Thu May 14, 2015 10:48 pm

I'm through the RabbArch™ hole.

It is addictive.

The only thing I am keeping windows for is gaming really. And foobar2000. I can't fucking live without foobar, I wish he would open source that so we could get a linux version. Deadbeef is the closest thing but doesn't really cut it...

I don't know if it is because I am older or because Arch is actually that much better, but I feel like this is Linux the way I always wanted it to be. Fast, fully customisable and fun.

I guess it is just because Arch forced me to actually learn how my system works.

And this is after how many days with it? I might change my mind if -Syu completely fucks everything up heh.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Fri May 15, 2015 3:07 pm

Foobar2000 is great. It runs on wine, I believe (with a winetricks font install). I'm a complete sucker for cmus though, so I dont even have to get out of the terminal to break out mah tunes.

I told ya, its so much fun. I was right, wasn't I.

Beware though, pacman, bad-ass as it is, is not a complete automatic-linux-maintenance program. -Syu often and fix errors first thing. Don't get behind to much!

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:18 pm

It does run on Wine, I've tried. But half my plugins stop it from even starting, and I've looked it up and there isn't a fix for most of them. I will so try cmus! I didn't think to use a terminal based one.

I know, Arch gives and takes. Things break, but hopefully I will get to a point where I know the system so well it won't faze me. Anyway the rolling release cycle is so much better than the shit debian, ubuntu and most of the others do. Things break more often but there are small things usually, whereas on the others every six months I'd have to reinstall because everything got fucked up at the same time lol.

At the moment I just have a couple of annoying bugs left to iron out. One is that for some strange reason the font used in gtk+ and xfce (switched as I was finding fluxbox a bit of a pain) keeps resetting to the default size when I reboot. I can't for the life of me figure out why, and the wiki and google isn't giving me useful info. But I'll keep trying.

Another one is that xorg has hung once or twice, forcing me to ctrl-alt-f2 and kill it. I am still not sure why that is happening either as the log isn't telling me anything.

The latest fun thing I've done is use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pr ... ync-daemon to store my chrome profile in a tmpfs in the memory, which is awesome! Never knew that was possible. It makes the cache, bookmarks and history lightning fast

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:22 pm

I'll post some screens soon when I've got it all the way I like it. Conky is running nice

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:12 am

Sorry for the triple post but cmus is powerful, wow. So simple, if it weren't for the lack of album art of spectrogram I'd say it is even better than foobar

I've just adapted a shell script to give me now playing stats in conky

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sun May 17, 2015 10:33 am

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Sun May 17, 2015 2:57 pm

Cool setup

This is where by desktop is at atm:

Notice the conky album art in the bottom right? There was literally no script (that I could find) online for it. So I spent half the day coding a nice little bash script to push the album art through for conky to use. It uses cmus-remote, grep and sed to get the folder, grep again to find images matching a string of common names, then symlinks the first match for conky to use.

I am an amateur and someone more experienced could have done it in a few minutes I'm sure, but the fact is I never would have dreamed of doing that before Arch.

If you want it I'll gladly send it your way, planning to put it up on the cmus wiki or arch wiki soon too (once I've made sure it is stable).

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Sun May 17, 2015 3:12 pm

ASCII album art inside cmus would be quite suitable if done right, quirky haha.

But I have next to no experience in programming so that is a long way off. After I get to grips with bash I may move onto python (more powerful, faster, easier as far as I am told).

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sun May 17, 2015 6:14 pm

Not bad at all dude! Very clever!

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Sun May 17, 2015 6:28 pm

Cheers

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Fri May 29, 2015 11:31 pm

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

This is a fucking brilliant little script.

Snufkin · Post by **Snufkin** » Sat May 30, 2015 10:43 am

...just about to buy a new comp for sole purpose of an Arch experiment machine. Was getting into Arch a while back, but stopped due to work commitments, but now things are steady I want to re-learn. Cupz's attitude towards Arch (+Linux) seems to chime with my interests!

...just not sure about desktop or laptop... prolly laptop tbh and then just get an external HDD and screen for 'home' purposes, if I need them.

-Snuf

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:07 am

Man, both of those setups are gorgeous looking <3 Cupz when I saw yours my actual response was "are you goddamn kidding me with that man". It's awesome.

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:58 am

turquoise70 wrote:Man, both of those setups are gorgeous looking <3 Cupz when I saw yours my actual response was "are you goddamn kidding me with that man". It's awesome.

Cheers

I've cleaned it up a tad since then (got rid of the two xfce panels, using tint2 and dmenu now):

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:51 am

classy as hell!

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:02 pm

Thanks

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:01 am

Yeesh, I need to watch my packages. My system is getting too sluggish for my liking.

Plus, I don't know if you are getting this cupz, but ever since kernel 4.0.2 I've been getting very bad response times from some terminal applications. Cmus and manpages are the worst, sometimes it takes more than a second to scroll and my system is more than capable. Might try fiddling with some options. The arch maintenance and performance pages aren't proving too helpful for debugging this issue.

On the plus side I am using 'pass' to manage my passwords for every web service now and it is amazing. Got a nice dmenu plugin running for it too.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:56 am

Linux n00b here. Recently installed Debian on my laptop. That went pretty smoothly. Then I dual-booted Debian on my PC with Win 8 and although it works, it's a mess, mostly because of user error, but also because of stupid UEFI and having to figure out how to get nVidia firmware installed correctly. I need to do a re-install so that I don't have to keep going into BIOS and turning UEFI on and off depending on what OS I want to boot. I hear Windows 10 is going to make it even harder to get around the secure boot, which makes me reluctant to try it.

Anyway, It's been a very slow learning process for me. I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm enjoying learning Linux* and like the idea of F/OSS.

*(GNU/Linux -- sorry, Mr. Stallman)

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:05 am

Don't worry about calling it GNU/Linux. Hardly anyone really calls it that.

If I may, why are you using Debian? Are you running a server?

It's never been a very exciting desktop distro

Stable as hell, but it lags behind on updates so you're stuck with old packages.

EDIT: Oh also is your problem to do with UEFI to do with Secure Boot?

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